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shots on an average. All the same they loaded 

 up their waggons with hides, etc. I have met three 

 Boers only who. would be considered really good 

 game shots by the average English sportsman, 

 and I have hunted with Boers many times. 



Francolin shooting very much resembles sport 

 on a grouse moor, and the birds are of the same 

 size, but I think the former are, if anything, quicker 

 on the wing than grouse. The largest bag of 

 francolin I ever made in one day amounted to 

 thirty-four brace. This was in the Graff Reinet 

 district. My reason for shooting so many was that 

 a large supply was wanted for commissariat 

 purposes ; otherwise I have always abstained from 

 possible slaughter except as a matter of sheer 

 business in the case of ivory, rhino horns, valuable 

 hides, and so on. 



A few specimens of almost all kinds of African 

 big game, except giraffes, still exist in protected 

 districts within Colonial limits, but they cannot be 

 considered as objects of sport now, and no sports- 

 man under the rank of a Royal, or perhaps a 

 Serene, Highness should ever even wish to kill 

 any of these survivors. These Colonies are hardly 

 suitable hunting grounds for people addicted to 



